wynnesome

In reference to the previous, I'm already over the "crash" episode. I'm still tired and not looking forward to waking up, being cold, and having a long drive in the morning. But I'm not feeling shaky, spiralingdown depressed like I was for a few minutes there. It's cool, I almost don't mind feeling like that for a little bit if I know I'm going to come out of it pretty much right away. I mean, I'd rather not feel that way at all, but it loses the feeling of hopelessness that gives it so much of its power of despair, when I KNOW it is a very temporary feeling. Kind of like having a nightmare that you realize mid-dream is a dream, as opposed to thinking it's real and the bad stuff is really happening.

Something to look up further, just to see what they're saying about it... There's this commercial on tv I saw for the first time today about depression. It's basically saying if you feel this way or this way, tell your doctor so you can get the right drugs ("right" meaning the company doing the commercial, of course). But interestingly this ad makes the point that depression is not just emotional pain, but one of the symptoms is also physical pain. Which is no revelation at all, like they're making of it in the commercial, to anyone who has actually experienced it. They give some web site that talks about it more, and I should check it out just for curiousity about what they're saying about the subject, even though I'm sure a lot of it is simply propaganda toward asking for a prescription for the drugs made by the sponsoring company.